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Violence
Barely any
Mild; sea dangers and the hardships of 19th-century naval life
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Period rum and seafaring drinking culture
Emotional Intensity
None
No psychological concerns
What this book is about
James Fenimore Cooper transcribed the oral autobiography of Ned Myers, a sailor who had served alongside Cooper aboard the U.S. Navy vessel Stirling as a young man. Myers recounts decades of seafaring life — including shipwrecks, desertion, capture, impressment, and eventual religious conversion — in plain, vivid language. An unusual hybrid of memoir and fiction in Cooper's catalog, and a fascinating document of early 19th-century maritime life.
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